By Joe Wilkins
Publication Date: 2025-12-28 14:00:00
Who needs vicious music columnists when you live in the age of AI?
Apparently not Ashley MacIsaac, a Canadian fiddler, singer, and songwriter who was labeled a sex criminal by Google’s AI overview.
According to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, event organizers at the Sipekne’katik First Nation, north of Halifax, canceled an upcoming performance featuring MacIsaac after Google incorrectly described him as a sex offender.
The paper reports that the misinformation was the result of one of Google’s AI summaries — brief summations it helpfully plasters above all other search results — which blended the musician’s biography with another person who bears the same name.
“Google screwed up, and it put me in a dangerous situation,” MacIsaac told the paper.
Though the AI overview has since been updated, MacIsaac explained that the situation…
